Adversaries Quotes · Page 3

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is…

— Francois Hollande

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it…

— Elizabeth Berkley

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Adversary seldom loses when you play on his playing field. It's called the home court advantage.

— Randall Wright

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our…

— Chinua Achebe

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

— Arundhati Roy

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

— Anonymous

We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.

— Carl Mydans

Right now, we don't have any leadership from White House to try to understand what our principal foreign adversary was doing to…

— Hillary Clinton

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict…

— Robert Toombs

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary…

— Wesley Clark

Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by…

— Akhenaton

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that…

— Jules Verne

John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary…

— Elie Abel

As long as the Biden administration fails to see and speak to the difference between our allies and terrorists, our adversaries will…

— Bill Hagerty

Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would…

— Henry B. Eyring

You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little…

— Charles Henry Fowler

...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly…

— Mark Twain

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which…

— Michael Ignatieff

“It is easy, however, to miscalculate the staying power of one’s adversaries. Price wars drag on long and painfully, especially when the…

— Greg Thain

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,…

— Yann Martel

We worked six days a week [on the The Breakfast Club], so you have one day off. So on that Saturday night,…

— Judd Nelson

Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation…

— William O. Douglas

The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least…

— Ayn Rand

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out…

— Isaac Newton

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

— Anonymous

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

— Dinesh D'Souza

A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

— James M. Paramore

“Within the chaos of your own existence lies a legend in the making – for the greatest adversaries we face often wear…

— DON SANTO

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

— Joseph Addison

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

— Eoin Colfer

“Your adversaries know more about you than your admirers do. They also know nothing at all.”

— Broms The Poet

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

— James J. Martin

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

— Albert Camus

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

— Howard Staunton

Convincing adversaries that they cannot achieve quick and decisive wins deters wars.

— John Mearsheimer

One of the first rules of warfare is to make your adversaries respond to you.

— Michael Waltz

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

— Chris Christie